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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotally, I'm seeing a surge in ROTC applications.  The military, for whatever reasons (economic, political) is seeing a huge spike in recruitment.[/quote]

+1, at my DC’s T-20 school, the ROTC unit has more than doubled in size this year.  The ROTC unit is actively working with the admissions office to recruit more  students.  I’m guessing the state of the economy is also leading to a big surge in ROTC interest.[/quote]

You don't know what you're talking about. The number of ROTC scholarship spots at a university is not decided by the university but by the branch of the military.  A top20 university can't go out in their own and decide "hey last year we offered 10 spots but this year we'll work with admissions to find 20 kids."

All the spot allocation and matching is done by the military.[/quote]

The ROTC branches at each school have their own scholarship budget and they can absolutely give scholarships to current students or incoming, separate from national rotc scholarship program. 
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This is not true to my knowledge.  they can subsidize room or board but not give their own scholarships. Please show us a website that supports your claim. [/quote]

They absolutely can.  They have their own DOD budget that supports their commissioning goals.  It isn’t done through a website so I’m not sure what to tell you.  I switched majors in school mid way through my freshman year, and inquired with ROTC about joining.  For the rest of my freshman year I worked on my ROTC application (it’s lengthy with lots of components).  I ended up getting a 4 yr scholarship from the ROTC dept- which worked out well for me because switching majors and added an extra year anyway.  Plenty of other cadets went on to get 3 and 2 scholarships directly from the dept as well.  I would say we had probably 4 cadets entering per year (out of maybe 20) that got scholarships straight from high school through the national scholarship application.  But at least half, maybe more, of each class were awarded either a 2,3, or 4 yr scholarship at some point during freshman or sophomore year- from money allocated to our rotc dept. [/quote]

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